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Los Artistas del Pueblo: Prints and Workers' Culture in Buenos Aires, 1917-1935

Los Artistas del Pueblo: Prints and Workers' Culture in Buenos Aires, 1917-1935

Frank, Patrick

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ISBN10: 0826338712
ISBN13: 9780826338716
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: Mar 1 2006
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

In this study of four Argentine artists who helped make up Los Artistas del Pueblo (The People's Artists), Patrick Frank examines social realism in that country's art. He contends their work constituted the first movement of social realism in Latin American art.

Los Artistas del Pueblo includes art history as well as the historical context in which the group worked. In Argentina, the years 1912 to 1930 are generally regarded as a Golden Age, when the country was among the world's most developed. Yet Los Artistas saw many gaps: poor working conditions, restrictive labor legislation, dilapidated housing, and disenfranchised immigrants who made up half of the capital city's population. The artists shunned the formal circuit of galleries, preferring to show their solidarity with the workers through displays of protest art in union halls, community centers, and Socialist party libraries. Their prints were intended to stir sympathy for the less fortunate and to motivate workers themselves to action.

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